Pinterest - The New Social Network

Last week I was out with boys at the pub when one of the friend asked – “Hey have you seen Pinterest?

My girlfriend is absolutely hooked to it” to my astonishment few others too had the same story. Finally few others were had a quizzical look on face stating “What is pinterest”.

Pinterest is a photo sharing social network – nothing new since facebook photo sharing and google image search has been there for ages. So how is it any different - Pinterest makes the process painless by offering a Pin It button that lets you grab pictures of your favorite things as you browse the web. The site then collects the images on "boards" that other users can follow and comment on. Which means you can hop on to the website and pursue other people’s boards and browse through images of your interest.

Considering the fact that Pinterest is actually deriving more traffic than what Facebook did in its early stages. Infact Pintrest beats YouTube, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace for percentage of total referral traffic in January. Hence we can say - What Tumblr was to 2011, Twitter was to 2007, and Facebook was to 2006, Pinterest is to 2012.

So I decided to have a good look at the social network and find out for myself. Words of warning Pinterest started as a female oriented Social Network, though now it has almost equal of both the sexes. So coming back to my test – I am planning to take a vacation soon to an undecided location, so I tested how PIntrest can help me. I will let you see the results for yourself – Click here to see my Pinterest Profile – Now you can see a board by the name of “Favorite Places & Spaces” which basically has images gathered from other pintrest users. I spoke to few about the places which they have visited, and it was fun to get suggestions from random places about amazingly beautiful places which I had no clue about.

All in all it is a brilliant social place and I every reason for it to blossom, with option to reshare and like other peoples pins and also option to follow other pinners, Pinterest has taken good things from Facebook and Twitter. Considering a picture is worth thousand words expect Pinterest to become part of your daily life soon. I almost forgot – Social network is by invite only hence no trolling by bots, one can request invite to existing user or to the site itself. (Technology, MensXP.com)